Elon Musk has a track record of calling hard problems early.
In a February 2026 interview, he warned: “Those who have lived in software land don’t realize they’re about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”
By late August, SpaceX confirmed it was bringing the casting of gas-turbine blades and vanes in-house — the single biggest bottleneck for new natural-gas power plants needed to feed AI data centers. Musk said the move could bring turbines online up to 18 months faster.
Today he put it even more bluntly: SpaceX has “a super cracked team that is outperforming the rest of the world by an order of magnitude in mass to orbit — and even we find it very difficult.”
Hardware doesn’t care about demos, funding rounds, or slide decks. The teams that actually build the hard stuff keep winning.
What a legend.
@KatieMiller I remember that time when Masa, instead of putting $12B into Tesla for a 1/4 of the company to help me take Tesla private, instead invested the money in WeWork.
That was dumb.
Introducing Mini 2, the next-generation portable Starlink. Get up to 4.5 hours of connectivity on a single charge with the quick-swap battery, or plug in with USB-C.
With built-in Wi-Fi, all you need is a clear view of the sky to get online in 60 seconds.
Preorders are now open by invitation in the US. Be the first to know when it's available → https://t.co/t2pSI1buaW
We have signed a major supply contract with SINGULUS to create a durable option for advanced solar cell manufacturing to support more than 100 GW of equipment as we accelerate the production of our Starmind satellites in Bastrop, Texas → https://t.co/a9bXuUK6Ti
🚨 BREAKING: The FCC accepts SpaceX's application to acquire nationwide 800 MHz spectrum
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile all told SpaceX "NO" when it asked to use their networks. SpaceX is building its own:
This deal with Grain Management secures 546 paired licenses covering ~100% of the U.S. population, on 800 MHz low band that penetrates straight through walls and already works with almost every smartphone.
Once it closes, SpaceX will hold up to 89 MHz of spectrum in every market it touches.
Elon Musk: "This is the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America."
ITS HAPPENING
Here is SpaceX's new @Starlink Mini 2 with quick-swap battery. You can get up to 4.5 hours of use on a single charge.
This means you can get internet in the middle of nowhere and not have to plug anything in.
SpaceX is making moves to become the first AI carrier $SPCX
• Current cell towers are still mostly “dumb” radios. The Qualcomm deal is about making them AI-native.
• Edge inference at the tower, like an updated Akamai for AI
• Starlink Direct-to-Cell and V3 satellites alongside the terrestrial build
Qualcomm’s CEO said the SpaceX agreement is finalized — not an engagement. SpaceX will build the base stations. Qualcomm supplies the silicon and the RAN accelerator for a terrestrial network he called one of the largest 5G deployments in the United States, with an AI-native architecture.
CLAUDIA, Ship 42, Starbase. Do you copy?
No tower has ever caught a ship coming back from orbit. Starship Flight 15 will try, no earlier than Nov 13.
Good luck, @SpaceX@elonmusk 🚀
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@Owl_of_Atena@cradrrat So easy to trigger Rust programmers 😂
Rust is a good language, but C is what you use for optimal performance on bare metal. With great power comes great responsibility.
🚨The EU's Digital Services Act threatens freedom of speech GLOBALLY.
What they say: the DSA prevents the spread of "illegal content" and mitigates "systemic risks to civic discourse".
What actually happens: the EU controls online narratives by forcing the world's largest platforms to censor content that the Commission and a network of nonaccountable individuals and NGOs deem unacceptable.
⚠️The DSA does not protect democracy. It undermines the free exchange of ideas and information on which democracy depends.
Find out more in our video 👇